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How Trump’s executive orders are impacting migrant workers

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4.51.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

During his first week back in office, President Donald Trump signed several executive orders targeting immigrant communities. We’ll hear how migrant workers are responding. Then, Kimberly explains the fiasco over Trump’s plan to “drill, baby, drill.” Plus, an economics professor shares a 1940s movie pick that’s on point for today’s debate on tariffs.

Here’s everything we talked about today: 

Join Amy and Nova tomorrow for “Economics on Tap.” The YouTube livestream starts at 3:30 p.m. Pacific time, 6:30 p.m. Eastern.

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0:00.0

All right, let's do a show.

0:09.4

Hello, everyone.

0:10.4

There you go.

0:12.6

I'm Kimberly Adams.

0:14.0

Welcome back to Make Me Smart, where we make today mix in.

0:16.6

We should tell people what's going on.

0:17.8

So in the rundown, Courtney helpfully says puts a little KR when I'm supposed to say something,

0:23.6

and it's in green, and it's a K.A. when it's Kimberly, and it's in blue.

0:28.5

Sadly, today it was K.R. and blue, and we both totally got confused.

0:33.0

Anyway, that's Kimberly Adams. I'm Kai Rizzdahl.

0:36.2

It's Thursday today, the 23rd of January,

0:38.5

so we're going to do what we do on Thursdays. Some clips from the big stories of the week and discussed.

0:42.4

So, as you know, there has been a bevy of executive orders coming out. A key one on immigration,

0:50.9

probably several land immigration. I don't know the actual count. The threat of mass deportations is already happening.

0:56.3

It's affecting communities, as you imagine it would.

0:59.5

And here's what the former mayor of Half Moon Bay, which is up in Northern California,

1:03.6

his name is Joaquin Jimenez.

1:05.2

He told KTV you up there about how it's playing out up in San Francisco.

1:10.2

A local restaurant, you know, did not open.

1:13.6

Then other restaurants, some of the workers did not show up or children, you know,

1:17.8

are very worried about what it could happen.

1:21.2

It happens.

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